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CPRE sets sights on new quarry...
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David Harris reports on a row between tippermen and environmentalists.
TIPPER OPERATORS have hit back at environmentalists who claim the vehicles are 'choking country lanes with noise and dust'.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) says that the government should do more to encourage recycling and cut down on the demands for newly quarried material over the next 10 years. Jill Hatcher, the CPRE's senior natural resources campaigner, says: "Digging deep into the countryside brings disturbance to communities, chokes country lanes with noise and dust from lorries, and shatters rural tranquillity."
But Derbyshire tipper owner-driver Dave Shepherd counters: "I disagree that too much is quarried. There is a lot more going by train than there used to be. Anyway, the people who have lived here for ever don't complain — it's the outsiders. The locals know the industry has given a lot of people a good living for many years. We get a lot of aggro and it's not fair." Ian Devenish, managing director of Essex-based TMC Haulage, adds: "The material has to come from somewhere. There is a bit of 'not in my back yard' about many of the complaints."
The CPRE maintains that the government needs to reduce the demand for minerals and encourage more recycling.
Hatcher says: "We must dig less and plan better for quarrying in the countryside before it is too late, because once our landscape is lost it is gone for ever."
Recently communities were left divided in the Yorkshire towns of Settle and Otley over the issue of quarry trucks driving through them (CM 13 Nov 2003 and 16 Oct 2003).
Complaints were blamed on outsiders moving to the area.